Re: [PATCH] timer_list: Correct the show function for timer_list by using iter->now

[Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>]

On 07/23/2013 02:18 AM, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 04:18:31PM -0500, Nathan Zimmer wrote:
>> This patch corrects the issue with /proc/timer_list reported by Holger.
>> When reading from the proc file with a sufficently small buffer, 2k so not
>> really that small, there was one could get hung trying to read the file a
>> chunk at a time.
> I think it makes sense to always use iter->now but it does not solve
> the issue with dropbear/my test case. Or is this meant to be applied
> on top of the previous patch?
>
>
> holger
>
Ah sorry I networked booted the wrong kernel and got excited.


However after hitting my head against this for the better part of the 
day I found
the root cause of my issue.

In seq_read about halfway down when we flush the buffer to userland.
m->index is advanced without calling m->op->next().
My iterator doesn't take notice of that and thus fails to advance.

         /* if not empty - flush it first */
         if (m->count) {
                 n = min(m->count, size);
                 err = copy_to_user(buf, m->buf + m->from, n);
                 if (err)
                         goto Efault;
                 m->count -= n;
                 m->from += n;
                 size -= n;
                 buf += n;
                 copied += n;
                 if (!m->count)
                         m->index++;
....


I'll need to think about how to correct it.

For the moment probably the right thing would be to revert b3956a896ea5